Translation services, episode 1
What follows is an actual email conversation. Names have been changed to protect identities.
AE:
How we coming with the proposal? We still on-track to deliver something today?
ME:
I still need numbers from XX, but you'll get it. I'm aiming for 4:00. {TRANSLATION: I haven't done a thing. But you'll get it}
AE:
Sweet! Have you already bounced the proposal off XX? Are you meeting with him to get those numbers? {TRANSLATION: I'm not reading your emails.}
ME:
Who are you and why won't you leave me alone? {TRANSLATION: Who are you and why won't you leave me alone?}
AE:
How we coming with the proposal? We still on-track to deliver something today?
ME:
I still need numbers from XX, but you'll get it. I'm aiming for 4:00. {TRANSLATION: I haven't done a thing. But you'll get it}
AE:
Sweet! Have you already bounced the proposal off XX? Are you meeting with him to get those numbers? {TRANSLATION: I'm not reading your emails.}
ME:
Who are you and why won't you leave me alone? {TRANSLATION: Who are you and why won't you leave me alone?}

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